So what is Spanish food all about? Start with conviviality and freshly prepared dishes with extra virgin olive oils, wines, cheeses, chic peas, lentils, parsley, rice almonds, garlic, saffron, cinnamon and fresh fruit. Add these to more olive oil and wine, very fresh fish, seafood, game, cured hams, sausages like chorizo, fresh breads, and to a lesser extent, beef, and you are almost there
You can't get more Spanish than this for a tapa. Gorgeous mushrooms infused with exotic flavors that will leave 'em whining. So make plenty and include some fresh crusty bread, such as a baguette, to sop up those seriously-garlicky juices.
some serious inspiration
Ingredients:
Body of woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look yourself like a world in your attitude of surrender.
My rough peasant's body digs in you
and makes the son leap from the depths of the earth.
I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me
and the night enveloped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged to you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, like a stone in my sling.
But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.
Ah those goblets of the chest! Ah those eyes of absence!
Ah the roses of the pubis! Ah your voice slow and sad!
Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my unbounded desire, my uncertain road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst follows,
and tiredness follows, and the infinite ache.
You can't get more Spanish than this for a tapa. Gorgeous mushrooms infused with exotic flavors that will leave 'em whining. So make plenty and include some fresh crusty bread, such as a baguette, to sop up those seriously-garlicky juices.
Ingredients:
- 4 oz. good, strong olive oil
- 16 oz button mushrooms, whole or sliced
- 12 cloves garlic, minced
- 6 Tbsp dry sherry
- 4 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp hot chili flakes
- 4 dashes of paprika
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- handful, of chopped parsley, to garnish
Preparation:
- Heat oil in skillet over high heat and fry mushrooms for 3 minutes, stirring constantly
- Lower heat to medium, add garlic, sherry, lemon juice, salt and pepper - cook 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
This dish is quite easy and quite delicious to serve with bread, as a tapa, but can also be an accompaniment to a beef, lamb, or pork roast, steak or chops.
If you slice the mushrooms, you can serve on toasted baguette slices.
Can be made a day ahead and served warm or room-temperature.
Pairings:
Campo Viejo 2006 - an affordable, and versatile choice.
Rioja
http://youtu.be/BughmijXOfE - They play violins to their wines. :)
Body of a Woman
Body of woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look yourself like a world in your attitude of surrender.
My rough peasant's body digs in you
and makes the son leap from the depths of the earth.
I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me
and the night enveloped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged to you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, like a stone in my sling.
But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.
Ah those goblets of the chest! Ah those eyes of absence!
Ah the roses of the pubis! Ah your voice slow and sad!
Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my unbounded desire, my uncertain road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst follows,
and tiredness follows, and the infinite ache.
- Pablo Neruda, 1924
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